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What makes Franco-era Spanish horror so horrible? The unnecessary cruelty and emphatic nastiness, a combination that’s led to more than a few essays about political repression. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s shocker puts psycho headmistress Lilli Palmer in charge of a twisted girl’s boarding school. Get ready for ice-cold Women-In-Prison intrigues, with macabre carnage for a chaser. Arrow Video’s pristine new encoding is already being applauded — it far surpasses edited, color-challenged older releases, revealing a beautifully-produced thriller with fine lighting cinematography.

The House That Screamed

Blu-ray

Arrow Video

1969 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 105 + 94 min. / La Residencia, The Finishing School / Street Date March 7, 2023 / Available from / 39.95

Starring: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín, Mary Maude, Pauline Challoner, Tomás Blanco, Víctor Israel, Teresa Hurtado.

Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer

Production Designer and Art Director: Ramiro Gómez

Costume Design Victor Marí Cortezo

Film Editors: Mercedes Alonso, Reginald Mills

Original Music: Waldo de los Ríos...

From beneath the Southern Cross come a pair of genuine noirs that happen to have been made in Argentina, where film art flourished in a system almost totally divorced from the American awareness. The Beast Must Die is a hardboiled tale of tragedy and murder told in an upside-down way that would make Orson Welles applaud; its star was called the Vincent Price of Argentina. In the visually bizarre The Bitter Stems a generous crook makes plans to murder his cheating partner in fraud, only to fall into a whirlpool of guilt. Expert testimony from Guido Segal, Fernando Martín Peña and Daniel Viñoly introduce us to an exotic film world almost unknown in the U.S.. Hear Eddie Muller try out his Spanish language pronunciation skills!

Argentine Film Noir

The Beast Must Die + The Bitter Stems

Two Argentine films noir

restored by the

Film Noir Foundation

and the

UCLA Film...

Sitges Film Festival: Teaser of “The Black Octopus” (“El Pulpo Negro”) released. Teaser of the new version of “The Black Octopus”, the suspense miniseries starring “Master of Horror” Narciso Ibáñez Menta that broke all the audience records in Argentina in the 80s, was released. “The Black Octopus” was one of the seven projects selected to …

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